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by mattdesl 3y ago
Google recently changed tack on NFTs, allowing them in the Google Play stores, which means it is now allowed by their policy to circumvent the store fees for this use case. But the more obvious solution here is to not use the walled garden
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Why do I even bother to reiterate the rest of the paragraph that you did not quote? Game developers and their users are regularly exploited by App Store and payment processor fees. Transfers of ERC721 and ERC20 on an L2 is negligible by com
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by mattdesl 3y ago
thank you for the rather long and opinionated soliloquy, which fails to actually address my comment or the projects I mentioned…
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by mattdesl 3y ago
There’s a lot of reasons this mechanism would be interesting for a game developer besides trust. e.g. mitigating payment processor fees. But to your question of trust, one interesting application would be in distributed & decentralized
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by mattdesl 3y ago
ChatGPT seems to do an ok job, although I have no idea how accurate it is. Here’s one translation of the comment: > mi olin e toki pona. mi toki kepeken ona tan tenpo lili. sina ken lukin e tomo tawa mi lon lipu " https://
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Fast and compact WASM builds are builtin to Zig's toolchain: https://github.com/mattdesl/wasm-bench
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. No such thing as safe CEX under the SEC, I guess. I do wonder what they imagine a legally-registered CEX would look like... only accredited investors can purchase and transfer crypto? Or, if it were up to Gensler,
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by mattdesl 3y ago
The SEC suit is for Coinbase’s staking-as-a-service, not all their trading activity. EDIT: I was mistaken! Apparently they are being sued for the combined brokers, exchange, and clearing agency activities; in addition to their staking-as-
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by mattdesl 3y ago
For many artists, the NFT acts as a certificate of authenticity, akin to Sol LeWitt's signed certificates[1]. It's certainly possible to manage these with mere pen and paper, but in today's digital age there are benefits to
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Your analogy is indeed absurd and irrelevant. NFT and blockchain is not specific to digital artists; you'll find illustrators, photographers, sculptors, painters, poets, performance artists, and many others using the technology &quot
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Most crypto art platforms also act as distribution platforms, akin to Bandcamp in this way. Look at fxhash[1] and Verse[2] which have a 2.5% fee. [1] https://www.fxhash.xyz [2] https://verse.works
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by mattdesl 3y ago
True, but I suspect hosting is a small fraction of that 10%, and users would likely opt for lower fees if given the choice of IPFS or Arweave (how most NFT platforms distribute media).
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Yes; I’m an artist, selling print and digital work for many years now. I also have bought and acquired art through galleries, auction houses, online platforms, artist websites, and now NFTs. I’m not sure why you have a hard time with the co
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Like using PayPal, Patreon or Bandcamp, which take up to 10-15% cut? Why would any artist opt for crypto’s 0-3% fees when we have such attractive payment systems already in place! /s [1] https://twitter.com/mattdesl&#x2
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Creative Coding with AI and Voice Prompts(twitter.com)
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by mattdesl 3y ago
I’m not sure why the data would change. I can have a blog post in Markdown that spans across multiple apps, same with other standard data formats like MP4 and PNG which do not need to change when porting from one site to another.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
This is where content addressable URIs shine. IPFS is still pretty rough around the edges to use, but it allows hosting and distributing assets on the web without them being tied to a central server operator.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
It’s cleaner and conceptually easier to work with than React & hooks, and tends to produce smaller bundles and faster apps.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
All of these are primarily being funded and advanced by crypto. “Distributed ledger technology” hardly existed before blockchains/Bitcoin. Similar story with ZKP, which has gone from academic theory to real-world application (see: ZKSN
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by mattdesl 3y ago
AI and machine learning has had several decades to mature—and it had multiple “winters” where interest and funding waned. It’s possible in 60 years we might see similar leaps from distributed ledgers, zero knowledge proofs, verifiable compu
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by mattdesl 3y ago
A ledger secured by a handful of researchers is not really permissionless or distributed as we have come to understand public blockchains to be.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
A “hypothetical blockchain” sounds useless if it cannot legally be applied in practice. It’s the sort of draconian policy that HN commenters would abhor if it were anything but blockchain. To use these networks—and to test & objectively
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by mattdesl 3y ago
How? If CEX operations are restricted in the US due to excessive, antiquated, or ambiguous regulations, citizens would be left with fewer ways to acquire these assets including research and hobby usage. To continue with Molly’s drug analogy
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by mattdesl 3y ago
It’s not technically possible for a single controller (the government) to censor and prevent transactions on an individual level across the network. In other words, the antiquated AML system we use for bank transfers cannot be strapped onto
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by mattdesl 3y ago
To what end, I’ll just repeat myself: > Having open source protocols that compete with PayPal and VISA and aren’t funded and controlled by central states can be a positive thing. I personally like that there is another choice than just
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by mattdesl 3y ago
The context of my original post is referring to transactions across the globe, for which cash is obviously a poor substitute.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Go to Wise.com and input the currencies in the transfer box. Reiterating what I wrote in another comment, since you seem to be viewing this solely from your own experience: > A lot of people have a limited set of experiences, such as sen
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by mattdesl 3y ago
My numbers are sourced from Wise’s own website. 1K GBP to CAD has a £5.02 fee and takes two days. > How does crypto handle fraud? Not every transactional system needs to adhere to the same set of antiquated and arduous AML checks and bal
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by mattdesl 3y ago
It’s all relative. The tech is still in its infancy, perhaps like AI was a few decades ago. The current landscape of PoS, applied ZKP, rollup sequencers, stablecoins, and smart contracts are all significant improvements on what existed 10 y
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Choose almost any two countries in the world that don’t share the same union. eg: From GBP to CAD with Wise, transfer cost is > $5 (sometimes much more) and takes multiple days; compare with USDC on a rollup which is near-instant and &lt

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